FIRST OF '4-D' PLAN
Straub to Hear KWAX on
AM Sets Tonight
Starting tonight, male radio
fans in ivy-covered John Straub
hall.cun hear KWAX, “The Voice
of the Oregon Ducks,” by dialing
880 on AM radios.
The AM (amplitude modulation)
broadcasts start ut 6 p.m., marking
Uie first stride in the KWAX “4
D plan to pipe AM broadcasts
into four campus dormitories.
Carson hall will be next, fol
lowed by Hendricks and Susan
Campbell. The Vet’s dorms, tem
porary in nature, and Greek
houses, supplied by city and not
University electricity, won’t get
the AM hookup.
Hampered
KWAX has been hampered since
its beginning in April, 1951, by
being an FM (frequency modula
tion) station. Only the larger ra
dios are -equipped to receive FM
broadcasts.
The technical "brains" behind
the “4-D” project were supplied by
E. A. Kretsinger, KWAX faculty
engineer. Money was raised by
Kappa Rho Omicron, radio honor
ary. Kretsinger engineered a smil
ilar plan at the University of Okla
homa.
The system works like this:
Programs arc piped from
KWAX studios on Villard hall’s
third floor through a direct line
to John Straub. There, they are
fed into a specially built transmit
ter connected to the Straub elec
tric system.
The Straub electric lines will
radiate a signal which can be
picked up 50 feet away. FCC regu
lations limit the dlstaace.
KWAXWorks
KWAX will also continue FM
broadcasts at 88.1 megacycles.
A special broadcast of "KWAX
works," a disc-jockey program,
will highlight the AM inaugural at
9 p.m. tonight.
Today on KWAX
6 p.m. Sign on.
6 :03 Piano Moods
6:10 Mews Till Now
6:15 Guest Star
6:30 Campus Interview
6:45 Here is Spencer Snow
7 People Under Communism
7:30 Showtime
8 World in Review
8:15 Campus Recital
8:45 News Roundup
0 Kwaxworks—with Hugh
Garrabrant
Emerald of the Air
10:51 Sign off.
Interviews with ASUO prexy
Pat Dignan and other campus per
sonalities, songs by Spencer Snow,
and disc jockey comment by Hugh
Garrabrant, Harry Saslow, Ed
Meyers, and Ken Whittle. Joanne
Forbes is coordinator for the
“KWAXworks” series.
Other programs featured Mon
day will be “People Under Com
munism” at 7 p.m., “Showtime" at
7:30, “Campus Recital,” featuring
School of Music talent at 8:15, and
“News Roundup” at 8:45.
Six Days
KWAX will broadcast six days
a week, Monday through Friday
from 6 to 11 p.m.( and Sunday
from 2 to 5 p.m.
When the Duck baseball team
plays home games, KWAX Sports
Director Jerry Shaw will be ready
at game time with play-by-play de
scriptions. Shaw’s brother, Jack, is
a sportscaster for Associated Oil
Co., handles PCC football and bas
ketball games.
Engineer Kretsinger said of “4
D” plan progress:
“It's only a matter of time and
money for the other three dorms
to get AM . . . but it’s almost im
possible to get KWAX on AM to
fraternities and sororities. You’d
have to pay the prohibitive cost
of installing a telephone line to
each house and building an indi
vidual transmitter.’’
KWAX officials estimate about
75 per cent of Greek houses have
FM-equipped radios.
The Emerald will run a KWAX
program schedule daily.
Ousted Warden to Address State
Convention of Young Democrats
The center of a state-wide con
trovery over prison reform and
rehabilitation, Virgil O'Malley, will
be the featured speaker at the
state wide convention of Young
Democratic clubs this weekend in
the Eugene hotel.
O'Malley, ousted from his posi
tion as warden of the Oregon State
prison April 1, has been accused
by the board of prison control of
failure to maintain discipline
among convicts.
The firing stemmed from an in
vestigation of conditions at the
Salem prison by a committee of
Board Petitions
Due Wednesday
Peti Lions for the six vacancies
on the Student Union board are
due Wednesday, according to Clyde
Fahlman, board chairman. They
may be turned in to Fahlman's
third floor office or placed in
ASUO petition box.
Vacancies occurring at the end
of spring term which must be filled
now include the graduate school,
the schools of law, music, health
and physical education, architec
ture and allied arts and the col
lege of liberal arts.
Applicants must meet regular
University scholarship require
ments, have residence here during
the two previous terms and be a
major in the school they represent,
Fahlman said.
Only sophomores thiq year are
eligible to petition from the schools
of music, health and physical ed
ucation, architecture and allied
arts, and the college of liberal
arts. ,
Students will also be selected
to fill the posts of member at
large, a one year term on the board
for two representatives from the
junior class, and a two year term
for a member of the sophomore
class. 1
Nominations of members at
large will be made April 15 and
interviews and selection will be
April 22.
three out-of-state wardens. The
report was highly critical of the
warden, stating that “the degra
dation, lack of control and general
confusion in the Oregon State pen
itentiary is without parallel in our
experience.’’
Divided Control
O Malley has answered charges
with the accusation that the legis
lature h<*d set up a system of di
vided control that makes it im
possible for anyone to direct the
prison properly.
Charles Grover, president of the
University of Oregon Young Dem
ocrats, hosts of the convention,
stated that the Oregon group
“Feels the board of control has
been using high handed practices
and surmises that there may be
politics behind it. We are certain
ly interested in seeing the matter
aired.’’
“We’re sympathetic with what
O’Malley is trying to do and don’t
feel he has been given a chance
because of the divided control,”
Grover added.
Banquet
The ex-warden, who came to the
Oregon penitentiary in 1951 from
Soledad, Calif., where he was as
sistant state prison warden, will
speak at the Saturday night ban
quet of the convention.
The banquet, scheduled for the
Colonade room of the Eugene hotel
at a cost of §3 per place, is open
to all interested persons, Grover
said.
The group also hopes to have
Alaska Gov. Ernest Gruening as
a convention speaker, Arlo Giles,
program chairman, has announced.
Newburn to Discuss
Professor Abroad
In Dad's Lounge
“The University Professor in
France, Great Britain and Italy”
will be the title of a talk by Uni
versity President Harry K. New
burn Thursday at 8 p.m. in the
Student Union Dad’s lounge.
Newburn, eighth president of the
University, traveled in Europe dur
ing the first six months of 1952.
His trip was sponsored by a Car
negie foundation grant for study in
educational administration of Eur
opean universities.
In 1938 also under Carnegie aus
pices, he visited England and Scot
land for » study of English sec
ondary schools as well as teacher
training programs of Great Brit
ain.
Shepherd Named
Jr. Weekend Boss
Pat Dignan Makes Temporary Appointment
Brittain's Eligibility, Succession in Doubt
lom Shepherd junior class vice-president, was named Fri
Weeke>ndAchai?maneS,dent Pat Dignan as temPorary Junior
Shepherd has appointed Joan Marie Miller, class representa
tne. as co-chairman. Dignan’s move came after Bob Britain
junior class president and Junior ,---ua n’
weekend head, failed to make a 2
point winter term.
Brittain may
become eligible
this week
through a grade
change. If this
happens, he will
take over the
Weekend post
and the presiden
cy again.
If Brittain re
Bob Brittain mains ineligible,
take over the Weekend post and
the presidency again.
Constitution Vague
If Brittain remains ineligible,
the USUO senate must determine
whether the presidency or the
vice-presidency is vacant. .
According to Dignan, the ASUO
constitution is vague on whether
the vice-president takes over per
manently or whether the senate
chooses a new president in cases of
scholastic ineligibility.
Dignan will seek an interpreta
tion on this point from K. J.
O’Connell, professor of law and
chairman of the senate constitu
tional committee. The senate will
decide on the method of succes
sion at its special meeting Tues
day night, Dignan said.
Then, if Brittain remains ineli
gible, the senate will decide finally
at the April 16 meeting who will
be junior class president. The body
will be guided by the constitutional
interpretation.
19th CENTURY, AMERICAN
Concert Program Listed
A concert including- three nine
teenth century works and one
number by a contemporary Amer
ican composer will be presented by
the Portland symphony orchestra
Tuesday at 8 p.m. in McArthur
court.
The orchestra, whose 75-member
personnel is drawn primarily fro,*
residents of Portland and vicinity,
is conducted by James Sample. The
appearance is sponsored by the
Eugene Civic music association.
The first half of the program
will consist of Dvorak’s “Carni
val,” an overture based on Czech
folk music, and Chopin’s “Con
certo No. 2 in F minor.” Playing
with the orchestra on the Chopin
number will be guest soloist Jakoy
Gimpel, Polish piano virtuoso.
Third of the nineteenth century
works will be “Symphony No. 2
in B minor,” by Alexander Boro
din, and the concluding number of
the program will be “Symphony
No. 5i4,” by modern composer Don
Gillis. When asked of the latter
number, “Why the fraction?” Gil
lis replies, “No. 5y2 came halfway
between Symphony No. 5 and Sym
phony No. 6.”
His compositions, based on jazz
and other American folk sources,
have been played by almost every
major symphony orchestra in this
country and Europe. “Symphony
No. 5 V2” was given its first radio
performances by Artur Toscanini
and the NBC orchestra and its
first public playing by Arthur
Fiedler ar.d the Boston "Pops.”
If the constitution is interpreted
to mean that the vice-president
takes over automatically, She**,
herd will assume the post, if Brit
tain is ineligible at that time. If
the interpretation calls for senate
election of a new president, the
job will be filled by that bodyL if
Britain is ineligible.
The junior class president has
control over the job of Junior
Weekend chairman. Traditionally,
he assumes the post himself...
Petitions Asked '
Dignan asked again Sunday for
petitions to fill the posts of sopho
more class representative and
freshman class vice-president.
These positions were vacated when
incumbents Janet Miller, sopho
more in speech, and Meb Buchanan,
freshman in anthropology, failed
to make their grades winter term.
Petitions are due in the ASUO of
fice in the Student Union before
Tuesday night’s senate meeting,
when the vacancies will be filled.
Any sophomore or freshman who
had a 2 point GPA last term and
has a 2 point accumulative GPA
is eligible to petition for the va
cant office of his class.
Sunday Service
Attended by 2300
"Christ triumphed over disloy
alty, dispair and death with His
resurrection from the grave. He
can help us overcome these same
three defeats which attack the
soul today, said Pres. Morgan S.
Odell, Lewis and Clark college, in
his Easter Sunrise service message
Approximately 2500 people at
tended the annual service Sunday
at 6:30 a.m. in McArthur court and
heard Odell deliver the main mes
sage on “The Three-Fold Triumph
of Easter.’ ’
He stated we experience the de
feat of disloyalty'today toward
those we love and toward our in
stitutions. However, indifference
to Christ’s commandments to us
is the worst disloyalty.
“We also have feelings of dis
pair in our times,” Odell said. As
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